" GOD's Simple Plan of Salvation "

 

My Friend:  I am asking you the most important question of life. Your joy or your sorrow for all eternity depends upon your answer. The question is: Are you saved ? It is not a question of how good you are, nor if you are a church member, but are you saved ? Are you sure you will go to Heaven when you die ? GOD says in order to go to Heaven, you must be born again. In John 3:7, JESUS said to Nicodemus, "Ye must be born again." In the Bible GOD gives us the plan of how to be born again which means to be saved. HIS plan is simple ! You can be saved today. How ?

     First, my Friend, you must realize you are a sinner. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of GOD" (Romans 3:23). Because you are a sinner, you are condemned to death. "For the wages [payment] of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). This includes eternal separation from GOD in a Devil's Hell. "...it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27).

     But GOD loved you so much HE gave HIS only begotten SON, JESUS, to bear your sin and die in your place. "...HE hath made HIM [JESUS, WHO knew no sin] to be sin for us . . . that we might be made the righteousness of GOD in HIM" (2nd.Corinthians 5:21). JESUS had to shed HIS blood and die. "For the life of the flesh is in the blood" (Leviticus 17:11). ". . . without shedding of blood is no remission [pardon]" (Hebrews 9:22).  ". . .GOD commendeth HIS love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, CHRIST died for us" (Romans 5:8).

     Although we cannot understand how, GOD said my sins and your sins were laid upon JESUS and HE died in our place. HE became our substitute. It is true GOD cannot lie. My Friend, "GOD. . .commandeth all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 17:30). This repentance is a turning to GOD from your sin and agreeing with GOD that you are a sinner. It also agrees with what JESUS did for you on the Cross.

     In Acts 16:30-31, the Philippian jailer asked Paul and Silas "... Sirs, what must I do to be saved ? And they said, Believe on the LORD JESUS CHRIST, and thou shalt be saved. . ." Simply believe on HIM as the ONE WHO bore your sin, died in your place, was buried, and WHOM GOD resurrected. HIS resurrection powerfully assures that the believer can claim everlasting life when JESUS is received as SAVIOR.

     "But as many as received HIM, to them gave HE power to become the sons of GOD, even to them that believe on HIS name" (John 1:12). "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved" (Romans 10:13). Whosoever includes you. Shall be saved means not maybe, nor can, but shall be saved. Surely, you realize you are a sinner, Right now, wherever you are, repenting [turning to GOD from your sin], lift your heart to GOD in prayer:

LORD, I know that I am a sinner, and I believe YOU died and rose again for me. I am trusting YOU to forgive me and come into my heart and save me. Help me to live for YOU always. In JESUS' name I pray, AMEN.

     Just take GOD at HIS WORD and claim HIS salvation by faith. Believe, and you will be saved. No church, no lodge, no good works, no water baptism can save you Remember, GOD does the saving. All of it ! GOD's simple plan of salvation is: You are a sinner. Therefore, unless you believe on JESUS WHO died in your place, you will spend eternity in a Devil's Hell. If you believe on HIM as your personal crucified, buried, and risen SAVIOR, you receive forgiveness for all of your sins and HIS gift of eternal salvation by faith.

     You say, "Surely, it cannot be that simple." Yes, that simple ! It is Scriptural. It is GOD's plan. My Friend, believe on JESUS and receive HIM as SAVIOR today ! If HIS plan is not perfectly clear, read this post over and over, without stopping until you understand it. Your soul is worth more than all the world. "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?" (Mark 8:36). Be sure you are saved. If you lose your soul, you miss Heaven and lose all. Please ! Let GOD save you this very moment.

     GOD's power will save you, keep you saved, and enable you to live a victorious Christian life. "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but GOD is faithful, WHO will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able: but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1st.Corinthians 10:13). Do not trust your feelings, they change. Stand on GOD's promises. They never change. After you are saved, there are three things to practice daily for spiritual growth: Pray -- you talk to GOD. Read your Bible -- GOD talks to you. Witness -- you talk for GOD.

     You should be water baptized [full emersion] in obedience to the LORD JESUS CHRIST as a public testimony of your salvation, and then unite with a Bible-believing church without delay. The LORD JESUS said, ". . . I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish. . ." (John 10:28).

Your servant in CHRIST,

Julie